NMCB 40 Seabees Deploy to Support Hurricane Katrina Recovery
Navy NewsStand
Story Number: NNS050902-15
Release Date: 9/2/2005 10:23:00 AM
By Journalist 2nd Class (SW) Barbara Silkwood, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 40 Public Affairs
PORT HUENEME, Calif. (NNS) -- Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 40 began deploying a detachment of 125 personnel to Gulfport, Miss., Sept. 1 to provide humanitarian assistance and conduct debris removal in the aftermath of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.
The detachment will lend support to the 22nd Seabee Readiness Group in disaster recovery operations.
Twenty-seven NMCB 40 Seabees comprised the first group to deploy to the Gulf Coast, with the remaining Seabees scheduled to deploy sometime during the same week.
NMCB 40 is currently at its homeport for a 10-month training period.
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